How To Use Your Freegeek Computer Linux with Xubuntu Freegeek Chicago How To Use Your Freegeek Computer 1. Background 2. Why Ubuntu? 3. Basics a. Menus b. Windows c. Folders 4. Advanced a. Icons b. Settings c. Software installation word photo useful software: browser etc... processor viewer OS = Operating System OS Hardware word photo useful software: browser etc... processor viewer GUI = Graphical User Interface GUI OS = Operating System OS Hardware word photo useful software: browser etc... processor viewer GUI = Graphical User Interface GUI: Xubuntu OS = Operating System OS: Linux Hardware GUI and commands* The modern way GUI = Graphical User Interface GUI and commands* The modern way GUI with Xubuntu *The old-way, commands in a terminal, is another Freegeek course Why Linux and Xubuntu Powerful OS Complete GUI Software included • Web-browser • Email • Office (word-processing, spreadsheets, drawing) • Much more All of it, every bit, is free Menus 1 Find the program you need 2 Instruct the computer with point-and-click (no commands typed!) Menus Exercise Using AbiWord as word processor 1 Find and open AbiWord 2 Write a small file instructing how to use menu 3 Save file to the desktop Menus Exercise Browsing the web 1 Close the AbiWord file 2 Find and open web browser 3 Search Google for help with AbiWord Menus Exercise Learn the right-click! ** Use right-click to open the file you created on desktop Then close the file ** Note the !exclamation! to highlight features often ignored or under-utilized Windows Crucial in all GUI: Mac-Windows-Ubuntu One window is the work-space for a single program Holding multiple windows open! Windows Exercise Two windows ● Open a web browser ● Navigate to http://richardcondit.org/workshops/Linux ● Open HowToFreegeek.pdf ● Open a new window with AbiWord ● Copy parts of HowToFreegeek into an AbiWord file Windows Exercise Two windows ● Open your word-processor ● Resize window to about half the screen ● Back to menu ● Open browser (do not close word-processor!) ● Resize browser window so both windows show ● Copy and paste from browser to your file Folders • Automatic system folders • User’s home folder • New folders Folders Exercise Create folder ● Move AbiWord file you created into home folder ● Use menu to navigate to home folder ● Open home folder ● Create a folder within named Instructions (right-click!) ● Move AbiWord file into Instructions folder New software ● Ubuntu supports new and free software ● The Ubuntu Software Center Exercise: Search Google for Ubuntu games Try installing (a small one due to internet connection) New software Advanced More material to learn on your own • Icons • Settings There is much help online!.